4:00 pm
Wednesday 14 October 2020
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I wrote – Amira Helmy:
It is likely that many of us have gone through this experience, and sometimes we scratch the neck or touch the arm, and we are surprised by a surprisingly long and thin hair, which appears to have grown overnight.
If this has happened to you previously, and you think that you are the only person on planet earth with such strange hairs in their body, know that you are not alone.
We have noticed this strange hair growing on our bodies as well, and we decided to research to find out its origin and causes.
Although many of us have previously noticed this type of hair, there is really no specific term for the long, thin, random hairs that we find all over the body.
But there are theories that explain this phenomenon: Dermatologists believe that abnormally long single hairs are caused by hormonal and genetic factors that cause some hair to grow to great lengths, according to the American PrideSide website.
Certain mutations allow some “selected” hair follicles to stay longer in the so-called anagen phase, which is the phase in which hair actively grows. As a result, these follicles have more time to grow longer than others.
These strange changes in hair follicles can also be caused by hormonal fluctuations that occur in the body and affect the chin or the area around the forehead and nose (the T-zone). If these hairs are bothersome to you, dermatologists suggest that you tear them off with tweezers, as you would to get rid of unwanted hairs.
Sometimes when some of us are surprised by the presence of these strange long hairs on his body, it seems to him that they grew overnight, but this is just a wrong perception from us, these hairs are very thin, and their color is close to the color of our skin, and we hardly notice them compared to the “natural” body hair, and for this The reason we can sometimes take a long time to find these hairs is, they keep growing unnoticed.
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